Monday, November 3, 2025

News on the Quay Brothers as of November 2025

 


Their first feature in twenty years, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, is the only story right now.
  • U.S. theatrical roll-out
    Opened August 29 at Film Forum NYC (Christopher Nolan presented, sold-out nights).
    Still playing daily in Los Angeles at Lumiere Cinema (Music Hall) and San Diego at Digital Gym CINEMA.
    Just finished one-week runs in Cambridge (Brattle), Oklahoma City (OKCMOA), and Columbus (Wexner Center).
    35 mm prints of Street of Crocodiles often tag along as a short.
  • Awards
    May 2025 – Anifilm Festival (Czech Republic): Best Feature Film for Adults.
  • Distribution
    April 2025 – KimStim picked up all North American rights.
    Soundtrack by Timothy Nelson dropped on Bandcamp last month; fans are streaming the eerie waltzes on repeat.
  • Exhibition
    March–April 2025 – “Dormitorium” at Swedenborg House, London: actual sets, dusty puppets, sheep-eye retinas under glass. Crowds queued around the block; the twins did a rare Q&A about oiling doll eyes with virgin olive oil.
  • Press buzz
    New York Times (Aug 28): “Dreams out of joint… wafting from another century.”
    The Believer (Oct 14): “Junk-drawer Mütter Museum aesthetic.”
    X is full of first-timers posting “I’ll never sleep again” selfies outside theaters.

Saturday, June 12, 2021

New film by Quay Brothers - Vade-mecum

 New film by the Quay Brothers was shown on facebook recently!

Full article here: https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/award-winning-quay-brothers-create-norwid-film-to-promote-poets-work-to-foreign-audiences-21198


Entitled “Vade-mecum” and named after Norwid’s largest poetry collection, the short film, around 11 minutes long,  premiered on Facebook last night (April 12, 2021).

Please remember to support The Quay Brothers

 While we love sharing links and photos of The Quay Brothers work please remember to support them and purchase their films and books etc. 

Quay Brothers on zeitgeistfilms.com

The Quay Brothers on Amazon

Their work has also been on Shudder and the Criterion Channel recently. 

Some theatres have shown their films for a fee also. 

They also are shown at film festivals and have exhibitions at museums.

Here is the more recent news on The Quay Brothers:

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/award-winning-quay-brothers-create-norwid-film-to-promote-poets-work-to-foreign-audiences-21198



Friday, September 18, 2020

Quay Brothers Sugar Packets

 I came across a photo on Twitter of a sugar packet with an image from the Street of Crocodiles film on it. I tried googling more info on it and nothing. Rumor has it that they were once handed out by the Quay Brothers. Does anyone have anymore info? 

Please let me know at www.twitter.com/cabinetofquay



Monday, July 13, 2020

Brothers Quay Preview - Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass


This clip is from the Youtube page of:

Polish Cultural Institute in London

The Quay Brothers have been working on their third feature film for several years, inspired by Bruno Schulz’s novel ‘Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass’. 

Recently they've shared with us exclusive preview clips of the upcoming film, which were previously displayed only as a part of 'Dream Pools & Collecting Holes’ exhibition at TENT. IFFR earlier this year. 

Embark on a surreal journey to the Sanatorium, the world in between sleep and wakefulness, a limbo of uncertainty, where time cannot be truly measured and objects roam with a force of their own. 

We proudly support the production of #BrothersQuay 'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass' and look forward to watching this masterpiece when it's complete.

Friday, July 10, 2020

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

Baby Snakes, Frank Zappa stop motion clay Animation

Every now and then I wish to post some stop motion animation that I think is cool and this is one of them. This is one of three videos. The others are fairly neat also. Hope everyone is staying safe. 

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Quay Brothers now on Shudder and The Criterion Channel

If you're a fan of David Lynch (particularly Eraserhead) and you have Shudder or the Criterion Channel I definitely recommend checking out the short films of the Quay Brothers. So far Street of Crocodiles is my favorite. 




Saturday, April 18, 2020

Filmmaker Jan Svankmajer on Covid-19

I came across a recent article on stop motion film animator Jan Svankmajer and his thoughts on the recent Covid-19 pandemic. Jan Svankmajer has been a big influence on The Quay Brothers. Here is the link to the article: Jan Svankmajer: Ways of Redemption

Image from Jan Svankmajer music video.

Friday, October 25, 2019

Quay Brothers London Home for sale!


The ultimate indoor secret garden? Inside the £1.15m one-bed London flat in a converted tin box factory hiding cobbled floors, internal wooden shutters and park benches being sold by film-making twins.

EXCLUSIVE: Unusual one-bed flat in south east London is currently on the market for £1.15m
The interiors include cobbled stones flooring in the bathroom and kitchen
Current owners are the Quay Brothers, best known for their puppet and feature-length films
The flat is at the top of a converted former tin box factory developed in the 1820s

Friday, September 13, 2019

Quay Brothers at Estrange Festival 2019

Found these photos on Instagram. Apparently they were at a Festival.
Not sure what the descriptions translate to. 
It does mention their newest project "Doll's Breath" and a possible premier. It says 11/09/19 but I think the date is September 11th 2019 which may be when I found the photos.




Monday, June 17, 2019

Bone Pillow Film Trailer



Stop motion animation film by Ghostbutt.

Twitter @ghosttbutt 

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Quay Brothers at Mexico FICG Film Festival 2019

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Screenshots taken via Instagram. I also posted these to my Twitter at @CabinetofQuay








Sunday, February 3, 2019

Tool Video Vs. Quay Brothers



Tool - Sober music video 1993 (left) vs. Quay Brothers - Street of Crocodiles film 1986 (right)

Quay Brothers - Street of Crocodiles 1986

Both have scenes of meat being rubbed by a dolls hand.

 Prison Sex - Sober video 1993 (left) vs. Quay Brothers - Cabinet of jan Svankmajer 1984 (right)
Both have scenes with a character standing in front of a wall of drawers.


Tool - Sober - Prison Sex music video 1993 (above)
Scene of an arm reaching for a taught thread.

Quay Brothers - Street of Crocodiles 1986
Scene of an arm reaching for a taught thread.


Tool - Sober - Prison Sex music video 1993
Has a character with one eye that repeatedly rubs a bump on his head.

Quay Brothers - Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies 1987
Has a character with one eye that repeatedly rubs a bump on his head.


This is just documenting similar scenes and which came first. 
A Quay fan is able to see the parts that were "inspired". 

A video for "Sober" was made in 1993. It debuted in May of that same year and was directed by Fred Stuhr.  It was filmed using stop-motion animation, with the characters' models designed by Adam Jones. It was the first of Tool's videos to be made in stop motion. 

Fred Stuhr. Stop-motion animator Fred Stuhr died last in 1997 in a car accident. The 30 year-old, Los Angeles-based director was recognized for his grunge-inspired puppet animation music videos "Sober" and "Prison Sex".

Sunday, November 4, 2018

The Art of Emil Melmoth


Emil Melmoth

 Mexican Artist inspired on the macabre, death culture, freakshow,
 medical anatomica, catholicism, deformities.
 Contact: emil.sculpt@gmail.com









He has already been featured in several art magazines such as Hi-Fructose and Juxtapoz and been in art galleries including Last Rites in NYC. I first came across his work in Tumblr and then again on Twitter. He could be the new HR Giger.